It is said that failure is a stepping stone to success. Gone are the days when you accepted your destiny to succumb to failure and sulked looking at the happy faces around you. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - Kind of The Story of My Life introduces the era of standing up, dusting the failures off your shoulders and walking ahead with your chin up and mind open. Learn how to use your weaknesses to hone your strengths and your failure to build your pathway to success by reading this book.

Author Scott Adams wittily epitomizes his life as a book of failures, that eventually turned out to be his manual for success. Consistently failing and falling and perennially getting mentally fatigued can often send a man straight up the stairway to hell. But Adams on the other hand, tells us how he exploited each fall to get back up and each pinch of pain to earn a moment of bliss.

He says that it's not about planning organizing and methodically approaching your dream. It's about being dynamic, pragmatic and energetic. for those who are thirsty for motivation, this is the book to read. You might even experience a gush of zeal on reading this book. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - Kind of The Story of My Life was published by Penguin UK in 2013 and is available in paperback.

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An important aspect about the book is how humor has been used as a tool to motivate and how downfalls have been expressed as strong ladders to success.

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About the Author

Scott Adams, creator of the popular comic strip called Dilbert, has been a cartoonist since 1995. He has written various bestsellers such as The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook. After a series of unsuccessful scenarios before he hit the bull's eye, Adams narrates his success story to the world in this bestselling novel.

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I started tumbling in my mind about this epic by Adams and came up with nothing but few lines..

There are some core, foundational aspects in our lives that Adams lays out that need attention in order for us to find our success. Adams believes that you need to tend to the groundwork for success by tending to your mind and body so as to allow yourself and your own set of talents and strengths to surface and flourish. Success is not easy but it's achievable...for anyone. Adams provides a set of skills and areas of knowledge towards which he thinks we should all vow a lifetime commitment to honing, learning and mastering. These make up a manageable and sensible list that will help in dealing with life and other people.

Fortunately success is achieved by application of proven systems which works for you and others with similar environments and circumstances.So try experimenting with systems and find out what works for you and just follow them.Most important and relevant thing about this book is that the author has practiced what he is preaching. This makes all the systems,he talked about in the book very realistic and achievable.Thanks Adam for your wisdom.

It took me some time to dig my teeth into his concepts in other Dilbert books. But this one is a general book on success. Some of the things that I like in the book - Scott is unapologetic about the his failed ventures and has an entire chapter on it. Being undeterred by failure is a great way to find success because unless you try something you won't know if you'll succeed at it.

Another thing that makes so much sense to me is creating systems and not goals. Every goal has a set of steps and if we set systems to follow the steps on a regular basis, we'll reach our goals eventually. Losing weight is a goal but exercising everyday is a system. It is more encouraging to exercise everyday rather than feel failure at not losing the amount of weight you want to. The third thing that I like is the concept of personal energy. Matching the time of the day with your energy levels is one of the best ways to optimise your productivity.

Some of things that don't go well with me and undo the things that I like. His string of failures were either (immature) college ventures or when he already had made tons of money through Dilbert comics. The systems approach he endorses works only if are in control of your daily routine and have a predictable one - which he does but we may not. Same goes for the personal energy concept - you can match it only when you know for sure how your day is going to go. He is overly apologetic about giving advice on affirmations, diet and fitness.

A book can leave great positive impact on some and leave no mark on others. As I was reading this book, I knew it's one of those books and luckily I fall under the former group. This is a part memoir and part self-help book with plenty of funny bits. I learn't a lot of hacks and life lessons from Scott Adam's book. I wanted to write down topics which influenced me.

Systems Vs Goal. Goals are for losers.Personal energy should be the only metric for success.Flexible schedule is important for happiness.Success begets success.Developing the right talent stack than developing standalone talents

Scott shares the processes, systems, and models that he used to become a popular cartoonist - as an engaging story (Chapter 1 starts with him losing his ability to speak). Scott provides an honest (and objective) account of his career journey - he emphasizes his failures, and explains how he used them as raw material for creating success over the longer term. He does not hesitate to share hard to explain (why it works) actions like affirmations.

Scott distills key ingredients required for success like diet, exercise, and happiness - into simple and actionable steps that you can perform on a daily basis (systems approach). He argues (very persuasively) that "Simplification is often the difference between doing something you know you should do and putting it off".

In order to help you take action, he lists a number of simplifications like - every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. He lists all the important skills that you need to acquire and provides a short primer on each of those skills. You will find a lot of good career advice - like developing a bunch of valuable skills - "talent stack". (If you like this kind of career advice, read "So good they cannot ignore you").

Maybe I was hypnotized into buying this book (Scott is a trained hypnotist), but I'm really glad I did. I read every blog post he put out on the 2016 US elections (a master-class on principles of persuasion) and this book was "advertised" on most posts (Don't miss the persuasion principles in the copy of the "ad"). I can't wait for his next book on the US elections slated for Oct 2017.

Any non fiction book requires lot of your attention to understand and imbibe its lessons, however, Scott Adams's lucid writing helps you enjoy the book and understand in an easy way. The book is not preachy, it tells you what you can do, how to be jack of all trades and why it is good to be the same. The book is great for any one who is looking for a personal growth read, I would definitely recommend this book to everyone.

Very useful and easy read with practical tools from wisdom of experience. Scott Adams skilfully uses himself as a prop and shares his experiences generously to enable the reader to internalize effectively. And of course, even though he's posed himself happily, as a failure, to drive home key targeted messages - he also leaves the powerful message that success is yours so long as you're willing to go beyond failures and leverage the valuable learnings that result from such experience. Enjoyed the read.